Posts tagged "astronomy"

There’s a new model that hypothesizes that the universe did not start with the Big Bang, and that, in fact, the universe has no beginning or end in time. Like, the universe never started, and the universe is never going to end. I’ll do my best to explain this, not being a physicist or…

The beautiful Geminid meteor shower, which happens annually when the earth encounters debris from the extinct comet 3200 Phaethon, lit up the sky this past weekend. It was visible to stargazers across the globe, especially those in the Northern Hemisphere. Luckily for us, plenty of talented photographers took to Instagram to share what they saw!

Did you get a chance to step outside last night/early this morning to look at the blood moon? This was the first full lunar eclipse in three years, and the first in a series of four that will conclude in September 2015. the Earth will begin to position itself between the sun and the moon for…

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," Neil deGrasse Tyson's reboot of Carl Sagan's 1980s' television documentary series, "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," is, so far, one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring shows I've ever watched. (Seriously, watching it I was more excited and moved than this little girl.) Jetting around…

Last week, NASA scientists predicted that they would discover Earth's universal twin within a year. Well, they made good on that promise and way early. Wednesday, the Kepler telescope found KOI, short for Kepler Object Interest, a very promising candidate for Earth twindom. Not the name I would have chosen, but I'm not complaining. We…

Oh hey, what's happening in space? Nothing maj, except astronomers discovered a planet made of SOLID DIAMONDS! Go and get that planet, girl! No, for real, before Mariah Carey finds a way to blast Nick Cannon off in a spaceship to go diamond mining for her, the planet is around 4,000 light years away and…

Super early this morning -- I'm talking between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. -- there was a Total Lunar Elipse that could be seen anywhere (provided there was a clear sky) on the night side of Earth. Though Total Lunar Eclipses -- when, according to Wikipedia, "the moon passes behind the earth…

Simply Irresistible

As you slog your way through the myriad not-yet-April Fools' Day pranks that plague this nation, revel in this: no one has ever pranked someone better than Michael Jackson pranked Russell Crowe, and he did it for years. In an interview with The Guardian, Crowe revealed that despite having never met Jackson,…